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REPORT,
1879.
To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
We have the honour to present the twenty-fourth
Annual Report of the health and sanitary condition of
the Wandsworth District.
Though we cannot point to a decreased death-rate
for the year 1879, we have the satisfaction of recording a
low fatality in some of those diseases which usually contribute
more largely to our annual, mortality; and to congratulate
you generally upon the fact, that the extreme
severity of the cold, and long continuance of the wet
weather during the year, were not fruitful of a much
higher death-rate than we have to report. In some of
the sub-districts a specially low death-rate was found to
prevail.
The sanitary labours of your Officers increase year
by year as the population becomes denser, and the need
for sanitary precautions grows more urgent. Evidence is
not wanting in the succeeding pages that the advancing
necessities of the District are being noted and successfully
met by those to whom you have entrusted the care of
the public health.
We have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servants,
The Medical Officers of Health for
the Wandsworth District.